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  | | Descendants of Aztec Pictography(Illustrated) The Cultural Encyclopedias of Sixteenth-Century Mexico (Hardback) by Elizabeth Hill Boone Hardcover, 264 Pages, Published 2021 by University Of Texas Press ISBN-13: 978-1-4773-2167-6, ISBN: 1-4773-2167-5 "Analyzing the texts as one distinct corpus, Boone shows how they combined European and indigenous traditions of documentation and considers questions of motive, authorship, and audience." |
 | | Painted Words Nahua Catholicism, Politics, and Memory in the Atzaqualco Pictorial Catechism (Dumbarton Oaks Pre-Columbian Art and Archaeology Studies Series) by Elizabeth Hill Boone, David Eduardo Tavárez, Louise M. Burkhart Paperback, 400 Pages, Published 2017 by Dumbarton Oaks Research Library And Collection ISBN-13: 978-0-88402-418-7, ISBN: 0-88402-418-0 "Painted Words presents a facsimile, decipherment, and analysis of a seventeenth-century pictographic catechism from colonial Mexico, preserved as Fonds Mexicain 399 at the Bibliotheque Nationale de France. Works in this genre present the Catholic catechism in pictures that were read sign by sign as aids to memorization and oral performance. They have long been understood as a product of the experimental techniques of early evangelizatio ..." |
 | | Stories in Red and Black(1st Edition) Pictorial Histories of the Aztecs and Mixtecs by Elizabeth Hill Boone Paperback, 312 Pages, Published 2008 by University Of Texas Press ISBN-13: 978-0-292-71989-7, ISBN: 0-292-71989-2 "Winner, Arvey Award, Association for Latin American Art, 2001 Honorable Mention, Honorable Mention, George Wittenborn Memorial Book Award, Art Libraries Society of North America, 2001 The Aztecs and Mixtecs of ancient Mexico recorded their histories pictorially in images painted on hide, paper, and cloth. The tradition of painting history continued even after the Spanish Conquest, as the Spaniards accepted the pictorial histories as val ..." |
 | | Collecting the Pre-Columbian Past(Reprint) (Dumbarton Oaks Pre-Columbian Symposia and Colloquia) by Elizabeth Hill Boone, George Kubler, Curtis M. Hinsley, Phyllis Mauch Messenger, Barbara Braun, Shelly Errington, Diane Fane, Enrique Florescano, Ian Graham, Holly Barnet-Sanchez, Elizabeth P. Benson, Michael D. Coe, Elizabeth A. Williams, Phyllis Mauch Williams Paperback, 368 Pages, Published 2011 by Dumbarton Oaks Research Library And Collection ISBN-13: 978-0-88402-373-9, ISBN: 0-88402-373-7 "The history of Pre-Columbian collecting is a social and aesthetic history--of ideas, people and organizations, and objects. This richly illustrated volume examines these histories by considering the collection and display of Pre-Columbian objects in Europe, Latin America, and the United States. Some of the thirteen essays locate the collecting process within its broader cultural setting in order to explain how and why such collections w ..." |
 | | Their Way of Writing(Illustrated) Scripts, Signs, and Pictographies in Pre-Columbian America (Dumbarton Oaks Pre-Columbian Symposia and Colloquia) by Elizabeth Hill Boone, Gary Urton, Reymundo Chapa, Carrie J. Brezine, Federico Navarrete, Margaret A. Jackson, Michel R. Oudijk, Oswaldo Chinchilla Mazariegos, Michael D. Coe, Frank Salomon, Javier Urcid, Tom Cummins, Víctor Falcón Huayta, Stephen D. Houston, Karl A. Taube, R. Tom Zuidema, Michel R. Salomon Hardcover, 422 Pages, Published 2011 by Dumbarton Oaks Research Library And Collection Abridged, Audiobook, Box Set, Illustrated, Large Print ISBN-13: 978-0-88402-368-5, ISBN: 0-88402-368-0 "Writing and recording are key cultural activities that allow humans to communicate across time and space. Whereas Old World writing evolved into the alphabetic system that is now employed around the world, the indigenous peoples in the Americas autonomously developed alternative systems that conveyed knowledge in a tangible medium. New World systems range from the hieroglyphic script of the Maya, to the figural and iconic pictographies ..." |
 | | Cycles of Time and Meaning in the Mexican Books of Fate (Joe R. and Teresa Lozana Long Series in Latin American and Latino Art and Culture (Hardcover)) by Elizabeth Hill Boone Hardcover, 338 Pages, Published 2007 by University Of Texas Press ISBN-13: 978-0-292-71263-8, ISBN: 0-292-71263-4 "In communities throughout precontact Mesoamerica, calendar priests and diviners relied on pictographic almanacs to predict the fate of newborns, to guide people in choosing marriage partners and auspicious wedding dates, to know when to plant and harvest crops, and to be successful in many of life’s activities. As the Spanish colonized Mesoamerica in the sixteenth century, they made a determined effort to destroy these books, in which t ..." |
 | | Aztec Imperial Strategies(1st Edition) (Dumbarton Oaks Pre-Columbian Symposia and Colloquia) by Frances F. Berdan, Richard E. Blanton, Elizabeth Hill Boone, Michael E. Smith, Emily Umberger, Mary G. Hodge, Mary G. Hodges, Berdan . Et Al, And Emily Umberger. Hardcover, 400 Pages, Published 1996 by Dumbarton Oaks Research Library And Collection ISBN-13: 978-0-88402-211-4, ISBN: 0-88402-211-0 "But it will be difficult to demonstrate that agricultural intensification can be connected to tribute flows and changes in market prices as proposed by Brumfiel, a point she herself has recently made (Brumfiel 1987a). If large quantities of tribute goods circulated to the general population, depressing prices for these commodities, the argument would be strengthened, but Sanders (1980) disputes this (cf. Brumfiel 1987a). The hypoth ..." |
 | | Writing Without Words(2nd Edition) Alternative Literacies in Mesoamerica and the Andes by Dr Elizabeth Hill Boone, Walter D. Mignolo, Prof Stephen Houston, Contributor-Tom Cummins, Contributor-John Pohl, Mark B. King, Contributor-Stephen Houston, Contributor-Elizabeth Boone, Contributor-Mark King Paperback, 324 Pages, Published 1994 by Duke University Press Books ISBN-13: 978-0-8223-1388-5, ISBN: 0-8223-1388-X "The history of writing, or so the standard story goes, is an ascending process, evolving toward the alphabet and finally culminating in the "full writing" of recorded speech. Writing without Words challenges this orthodoxy, and with it widespread notions of literacy and dominant views of art and literature, history and geography. Asking how knowledge was encoded and preserved in Pre-Columbian and early colonial Mesoamerican cultures, th ..." |
 | | Stories in Red and Black(1st Edition) Pictorial Histories of the Aztecs and Mixtecs by Elizabeth Hill Boone Hardcover, 296 Pages, Published 2000 by University Of Texas Press ISBN-13: 978-0-292-70876-1, ISBN: 0-292-70876-9 "Winner, Arvey Award, Association for Latin American Art, 2001Honorable Mention, Honorable Mention, George Wittenborn Memorial Book Award, Art Libraries Society of North America, 2001The Aztecs and Mixtecs of ancient Mexico recorded their histories pictorially in images painted on hide, paper, and cloth. The tradition of painting history continued even after the Spanish Conquest, as the Spaniards accepted the pictorial histories as valid ..." |
 | | Painted Architecture and Polychrome Monumental Sculpture in Mesoamerica(1st Edition) (Dumbarton Oaks Pre-Columbian Symposia and Colloquia) by Elizabeth Hill Boone, Dumbarton Oaks Hardcover, 204 Pages, Published 1985 by Dumbarton Oaks Research Library And Collection ISBN-13: 978-0-88402-142-1, ISBN: 0-88402-142-4 "In sculpture of the last several centuries, too, there has been a particular concern (at least until Pop Art of the 1960s) with allowing the essential properties of the material — be it metal, stone, wood, or plastic — to determine the color of the work, with the interchange of volume, void, and texture dominating over any artificial coloristic additions. We have thus been conditioned to expect that architecture and sculpture are b ..." |
 | | The Art and Iconography of Late Post-Classic Central Mexico (Dumbarton Oaks Pre-Columbian Conference Proceedings) by Elizabeth Hill Boone, Elizabeth P. Benson, Merle Greene Robertson, Dumbarton Oaks Hardcover, 264 Pages, Published 1982 by Dumbarton Oaks Research Library And Collection ISBN-13: 978-0-88402-110-0, ISBN: 0-88402-110-6 "I would like to express my appreciation to Elizabeth I'. Benson; and to Emily Rabin and Mary Elizabeth Smith for helpful comments. The Codex Colombino illustrations are from Antioikdades mexUanas publi- cadas en homenaje a la memoria de Cristobal Colon, por La Junta Colombina dv Xtfxico (Mexico. 1892), a lithographic edition not included in the Bibliography to avoid any confusion with the more readily available photographic edition ..." |
 | | The Southeast Classic Maya Zone(1st Edition) (Dumbarton Oaks Pre-Columbian Symposia and Colloquia) by Elizabeth Hill Boone, Gordon Randolph Willey, Gordon R. Willey, Dumbarton Oaks Hardcover, 414 Pages, Published 1988 by Dumbarton Oaks Research Library And Collection ISBN-13: 978-0-88402-170-4, ISBN: 0-88402-170-X "Sheets, Payson D. 1971 An Ancient Natural Disaster. Expedition 14 (1): 24-31. 1976 The llopango Volcano and the Maya Protoclassic . Museum of Anthropology Research Records 9. Southern Illinois University, Carbondale. 1978 The Artifacts. In The Prehistory of Chalchuapa, El Salvador (Robert J. Sharer, ed.) 2: 2-107. University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia. 1979 Environmental and Cultural Effects of the llopango Eruption in Cen ..." |
 | | Collecting the Pre-Columbian Past(1st Edition) by Elizabeth Hill Boone, Dumbarton Oaks Hardcover, 368 Pages, Published 1993 by Dumbarton Oaks Research Library And Collection ISBN-13: 978-0-88402-208-4, ISBN: 0-88402-208-0 "The history of Pre-Columbian collecting is a social and aesthetic history--of ideas, people and organizations, and objects. This richly illustrated volume examines these histories by considering the collection and display of Pre-Columbian objects in Europe, Latin America, and the United States. Some of the thirteen essays locate the collecting process within its broader cultural setting in order to explain how and why such collections w ..." |
 | | Aztec Empire, The by Felipe Solis Olguin, Roberto Velasco Alonso, Dr. Frances Berdan, Dr. Elizabeth Hill Boone, Dr. Anne Cyphers, Dr. Richard Diehl, Dr. Linda Manzanilla, Dr. Eduardo Matos Moctezuma, Dr. William Sanders, Dr. Guilliem Olivier, Dr. Miguel Leon Portilla, Dr. Michael Smith, Dr. Carl Taube, Richard Townsend, Dr. Perla Valle, Dr. Phil Weigand, Eduado Matos Moctezuma Hardcover, 376 Pages, Published 2004 by Guggenheim Museum ISBN-13: 978-0-89207-321-4, ISBN: 0-89207-321-7 |
 | | The Aztec Templo Mayor (Dumbarton Oaks Pre-Columbian Symposia and Colloquia) by Elizabeth Hill Boone, Dumbarton Oaks Hardcover, 514 Pages, Published 1987 by Dumbarton Oaks Research Library And Collection ISBN-13: 978-0-88402-149-0, ISBN: 0-88402-149-1 "The Ideology of Autosacrifice at the Templo Mayor CECELIA F. KLEIN full understanding of any archaeological site ultimately depends on knowing just how it was used.' Of the Templo Mayor, -L. \ or "main temple," precinct in the Aztec capital city, Tenochtitlan, we have known for some time that the major events it housed were ritualistic in nature. The ritual act for which the precinct is best known is human sacrifice, the ritual kil ..." |
 | | Ritual Human Sacrifice in Mesoamerica(1st Edition) A Conference at Dumbarton Oaks, October 13th and 14th, 1979 by Elizabeth Hill Boone, Elizabeth P. Benson, Boonem Elizabeth H. Hardcover, 247 Pages, Published 1984 by Dumbarton Oaks Research Library ISBN-13: 978-0-88402-120-9, ISBN: 0-88402-120-3 "Very slightest of wear to the cover , no writing or highlighting. Slightly stained on foreedge textblok. A very nice copy. All our books are individually inspected, rated and described. Never EX-LIB unless specifically listed as such." |
 | | Stories in Red and Black Pictorial Histories of the Aztecs and Mixtecs by Elizabeth Hill Boone 312 Pages, Published 2010 by University Of Texas Press ISBN-13: 978-0-292-78312-6, ISBN: 0-292-78312-4 "Illustrations. Figures. i . Formula for calculating the variance of a sample, 31 2. Instructions for operating a hot air dryer, 31 3. Pictorial representations and ideograms related to conquest and war, 33 4. Pictorial representations of material things, 34 5. Ideograms for "day" and a painter painting a div- inatory almanac, 3s 6. Name sign of ... Calvin and Hobbes comic strip, by Bill Watterson, 71 37. Codex Selden 6, 73 38. Code ..." |
 | | Moctezuma's Mexico(1st Edition) Visions of the Aztec World by David Carrasco, Eduardo Matos Moctezuma, Scott Sessions, James Corbridge, Anthony F. Aveni, Elizabeth Hill Boone, Eduardo Matos Mocteczuma Hardcover, 188 Pages, Published 1992 by Univ Pr Of Colorado ISBN-13: 978-0-87081-263-7, ISBN: 0-87081-263-7 "Updated with a new chapter by Davíd Carrasco describing how the Aztec world has been re-imagined by modern Mexican American communities and Chicano scholars, Moctezuma’s Mexico is a lavishly illustrated volume that provides an in-depth historical profile of the Aztec empire on the eve of its fateful encounter with the Europeans. Beginning with an exploration of Aztec history and cosmovision, the authors and two other prominent scholars- ..." |
 | | Falsifications and misreconstructions of pre-Columbian art A conference at Dumbarton Oaks, October 14th and 15th, 1978 by Elizabeth H. Boone, Elizabeth Hill Boone, Elizabeth Benson Hardcover, 142 Pages, Published 1982 by Dumbarton Oaks, Trustees For Harvard University ISBN-13: 978-0-88402-111-7, ISBN: 0-88402-111-4 "Book by Boone, Elizabeth H. (ed)" |
 | | The Book of the Life of the Ancient Mexicans The Codex Magliabechiano and the Lost Prototype of the Magliabechiano Group. by Elizabeth Hill Boone, Zelia Nuttall Hardcover, 250 Pages, Published 1984 by Univ Of California Pr ISBN-13: 978-0-520-04520-0, ISBN: 0-520-04520-3 |
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